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by prestonbriggs 1921 days ago
Thinking about it a bit more, I realize I've over simplified. Things were more diverse. At the time, there were significant academic compiler projects in the US written in PL/1, SETL, and Lisp. ML (as in Standard ML of New Jersey) work was getting started. I knew older guys who were interested in Algol 68. In academia, I saw no PCs and most grad students didn't have one.